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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 584. To ask the Minister for Health if current security arrangements for Millfield House, Blackpool, are expected to continue indefinitely or for a fixed timeframe; if the security arrangement will also apply to the independent living pods near Millfield House that recently received planning approval from Cork City Council; if so, if the current security costs will increase; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (9 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 591. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to update pay scales for non-consultant hospital doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21265/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 615. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 638 of 5 October 2021, 691 of 29 November 2022, 1553 of 18 January 2023, 204 of 15 February 2023, 1153 of 21 March 2023 and 1453 of 18 April 2023, the reason for a lack of any detail on staffing levels or basic service-planning for a new facility in Midleton, County Cork that will accommodate three residents with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 616. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 596 of 25 April 2023, if he will provide details of any follow-up consultation that the Mental Health Commission may have had with residents who reported to the commission that they were happy to move from the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton and satisfied with their new placements; in particular, the number of follow-up...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 617. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 602 of 25 April 2023, the reason the Mental Health Commission has declined a request from the Oireachtas Committee on Health to comment on the provision of community residential mental health placement serving the combined HSE catchments of the Cobh/Glenville and Midleton/Youghal adult mental health teams (details...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 618. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of capital funding applied for by Cork HSE management in respect of the development of a ten-bed residential mental health service in Midleton, County Cork; the date this capital funding was applied for and for the managers making this application and the managers deciding on the proposals; if he will provide details of the level of communication...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The company Indeed recently announced a cut to its global workforce that will see 200 of its Irish workers facing redundancy. Numerous constituents have been in touch with me about their treatment. They told me about individual consultations with senior leadership who had no answer to basic questions; that people were given one hour's notice to engage in those one-on-one consultations even...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (4 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 10. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the implementation of camera enforcement as part of the BusConnects programme; if this measure will be brought forward as part of a road safety strategy by his Department, as outlined to the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20240/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (4 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 24. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on progress since November 2022 on the implementation of red light cameras across the road traffic network and the stated commitment to further develop camera-based enforcement by An Garda Síochána, including at junctions and for management of bus and cycle lanes; and if he will make a statement on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (4 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Will the Minister provide an update on the implementation of camera enforcement as part of the upcoming BusConnects programme and if this measure will be brought forward as part of a road safety strategy by his Department as outlined to us at the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts in 2022?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (4 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Can I ask the Minister of State for some clarification on that because this is obviously an issue on which I have gone back and forth quite a good deal with the Department? I have had at least seven or eight engagements with the Department on the issue in the past 18 months or so. In June 2022, we were told that legislative measures might or will be required in due course. In September...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (4 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: It is very useful and good to know that there is a working group in place and that progress is being made. Could we get some more information around that working group, because one of the issues which arose in the Committee of Public Accounts is the fact that, like so much in transport, it falls between a number of agencies? Am I to take it the NTA is the lead point and will provide the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (4 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department still supports the statement in the environmental impact assessment report to the River Bride (Blackpool) certified drainage scheme that flooding in Blackpool is primarily fluvial; if restricting the river channel in Blackpool by constructing hard flood defences will also restrict pluvial flow; if the scheme has been...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (4 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if delays in An Bord Pleanála may affect projects under the Cork area commuter rail programme in meeting deadlines for European and other funding opportunities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20862/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The Parliamentary Budget Office, PBO, briefing was very helpful and TASC's report was incredibly useful. This is complex and there is a lot at play. One thing I am trying to understand is the renewed or increased focus on the expenditure benchmark. Am I right in that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I have been trying to understand what that means. There is a sense where we are leaving some metrics behind and there is then a new focus on this, and this seems to be quite central to some of those new measurements. However, it seems that we are still running into that issue around relatively imprecise forecasting that is based to some degree on future growth. I think in Ireland we all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Might that have a knock-on effect in terms of tax reliefs or tax expenditures that governments might choose that might incentivise them to do that? Would there be a concern for Ireland, considering we already have tax expenditures of approximately €7.1 billion and we have heard from other committees that we do not necessary do a good job in the governance of those tax expenditures?